Toggle fixing

Abstract

A toggle fixing for fixing to a panel which is accessible only from one side. The toggle fixing has a crosspiece and a strip which is flexible and, as a result, pivotally connected to the crosspiece and on which a sleeve is displaceable in the direction of the crosspiece. The sleeve is provided with a screw hole, so that a screw cannot be pushed through but rather needs to be screwed through the sleeve in order that it can be screwed into the crosspiece. The sleeve relieves the crosspiece of an axial force of the screw.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A toggle fixing for fixing to an insertion hole, having a crosspiece which has a screw hole for screwing in a screw transversely with respect to the crosspiece, having a strip for handling the toggle fixing, which strip is pivotally arranged on the crosspiece laterally of the screw hole of the crosspiece, and having a sleeve which is displaceably arranged on the strip and which has a through-hole which is in alignment with the screw hole of the crosspiece when the strip projects from the crosspiece axially parallel to the screw hole of the crosspiece, wherein the through-hole of the sleeve is a screw hole for screwing through a screw that is arranged to be screwed into the screw hole of the crosspiece and sized to be received in the through-hole, wherein the through-hole is formed to prevent the screw from being received in the through-hole without rotational movement of the screw. 
     
     
       2. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the sleeve has a laterally projecting counter-bearing for contact with a rim of an insertion hole through which the crosspiece is arranged to be inserted. 
     
     
       3. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1  wherein an inside width of the screw hole of the crosspiece is at least as large as an inside width of the screw hole of the sleeve. 
     
     
       4. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the screw hole of the sleeve has at least one inward-facing element for threaded engagement of a screw. 
     
     
       5. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the screw hole of the sleeve is resiliently expandable. 
     
     
       6. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the sleeve has at least one element that is resilient laterally with respect to the screw hole for threaded engagement of a screw that is arranged to be screwed through the screw hole of the sleeve. 
     
     
       7. The toggle fixing according to  claim 6 , wherein the resilient element has for threaded engagement of the screw an inner surface running obliquely with respect to the screw hole of the sleeve, which inner surface narrows the screw hole of the sleeve. 
     
     
       8. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the strip has a rack-like toothing and the sleeve has a locking catch which co-operates with the toothing in the manner of a ratchet and which prevents displacement of the sleeve away from the crosspiece. 
     
     
       9. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the strip is in one piece with the crosspiece. 
     
     
       10. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein the sleeve has at least one outwardly projecting anti-rotation element for securing the sleeve against rotation with a screw in an insertion hole, into which the sleeve has been inserted, when the screw is being screwed through the screw hole of the sleeve. 
     
     
       11. The toggle fixing according to  claim 1 , wherein a wall of the through-hole that defines the through-hole is formed to have threaded engagement with the screw. 
     
     
       12. A toggle fixing for fixing to an insertion hole, having a crosspiece which has a screw hole for screwing in a screw transversely with respect to the crosspiece, having a strip for handling the toggle fixing, which strip is pivotally arranged on the crosspiece laterally of the screw hole of the crosspiece, and having a sleeve which is displaceably arranged on the strip and which has a through-hole which is in alignment with the screw hole of the crosspiece when the strip projects from the crosspiece axially parallel to the screw hole of the crosspiece, wherein the through-hole of the sleeve is a screw hole for screwing through a screw that is arranged to be screwed into the screw hole of the crosspiece, wherein the screw hole of the sleeve has at least one inward-facing element for threaded engagement of a screw. 
     
     
       13. A toggle fixing for fixing to an insertion hole, having a crosspiece which has a screw hole for screwing in a screw transversely with respect to the crosspiece, having a strip for handling the toggle fixing, which strip is pivotally arranged on the crosspiece laterally of the screw hole of the crosspiece, and having a sleeve which is displaceably arranged on the strip and which has a through-hole which is in alignment with the screw hole of the crosspiece when the strip projects from the crosspiece axially parallel to the screw hole of the crosspiece, wherein the through-hole of the sleeve is a screw hole for screwing through a screw that is arranged to be screwed into the screw hole of the crosspiece, wherein the screw hole of the sleeve is resiliently expandable.